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Okay, so in one of my recent posts i described an issue i was having and trying to solve. After numerous different suggestions, i gave up and just lived with it. One of my buddies suggested that i take a look at LatencyMon, just to make sure nothing was behaving badly... and funnily enough, something was, my DPC Latency was way over about 600, the culprit being nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver), decided to DDU once again to the latest drivers and the latency went down by about 50%, to 300~ - the stutter was still present, but not as bad and not as frequent. When i posted the post, the BIOS that i was using was the latest for my Motherboard (z370m Mortar), and at the time of commenting a new BIOS was released - i've decided to update to the latest BIOS and low and behold the issue is gone. Just like that, with a simple BIOS update. Things seem to be 10x smoother than they where before. DPC Latency seems to still be hovering around 150~, but the stutter is gone and i seemed to have actually gained frames (about +10fps) in the process. Patch Notes say nothing about fixing anything, just updating RST, adding updates for security vulnerabilities and adding memory compatibility. Weird how just updating the BIOS, can fix so much shit huh?

Yes. Just updated the post. Couldn't think of the actual term until you've just pointed it out, lol.

Just because i wanted to shave some heat off my GPU, i was thinking about opening it up and replacing the stock thermal paste with some Thermal Grizzly i've got. However, upon going to unscrew the screws, i realised that i've tried to do this before and the screws easily became stripped/have zero footing for a screwdriver and where weak as fuck. Any way to remove stripped screws, like at all? Or am i screwed (haha)?

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I'm not at my PC right now, but this video is the exact same thing i'm facing - though mine happens more frequently and for less time. It doesn't affect looking up and down, only panning side to side. I have a Logitech G502 @ 1000hz polling rate. The guy in the video states his only happens when his CPU is pinned @ 100%, something which doesn't happen to me, i rarely see above 50% usage across all cores. It is manifesting in the same way though, visible stutter when i'm panning left and right.

I'll force it off now. As for lower framerates, this happens at any framerate, it's pretty much consistent every few seconds and mainly happens when i'm moving my mouse around the screen in games. The overclock i've reset back to default and the same thing occurs, PSU is pretty new too.

Quiet a few. - War thunder - PUBG - Battlefield 1/3/4 - The Division Those mainly. The microstutter is present in them all.

Well CPU/RAM/VRAM usage never are really that high. CPU maxes out at about 50% usage, VRAM at about 3/4/5GB usage out of the full 6GB available - depending on game, RAM at about 30-50% usage depending on game. Apart from the vsync being active in games (i'll check them now), i don't see how or why these would be throttling whatsoever. GPU temps rarely exceed about 60c, CPU barely even pushes past 55c under gaming conditions. This whole micro-stuttering shenanigans is just annoying that it's randomly started out of nowhere after all these months of perfectly stable and fine gaming. Only thing i'm thinking is Windows somehow fucking up and displaying incorrect frametimes/frame pacing - though that doesn't explain why multiple clean installs of the drivers hasn't fixed that.

Yeah, that's the monitor i meant - typo on my side. As for aiming for 144hz, i've purposely set a custom res in the nvidia control panel and set the refresh to 100hz, since this 1060 struggles to get anywhere near 144fps at 2560x1080. As for having vsync active, no it is not, i get horrible input lag with it active so prefer it not active.

Updated the post. Included main system components, as well as Monitor.

Up to about a week ago, this problem never existed - but however now it's started to rear it's ugly face. Dreaded micro-stutter, which gives me migraines/headaches. Already reset the card back to default, and yet it continues to happen. I'm at 100hz, frame-rate is locked at 100fps on any game i play and never drops below that, frame-time never fluctuates. Genuinely don't know what to do. No amount of updating drivers/downgrading drivers is solving it. BIOS, Windows etc. is already fully up-to date. Running Windows 10 LTSB (clean install), never crashed, never BSOD'd. Memory is stable at 3600MHz, and 8600k @ 4.7GHz, never reaches above 50% usage in most games. Already DDU'd drivers multiple times in Safe Mode, reinstalled most drivers to make sure it isn't some conflict, nothing solves it. Give some suggestions. Monitor: LG 34UC39G-B via DP CPU: 8600k @ 5GHz GPU: Palit Dual GTX 1060 6G MOBO: Z370M Mortar RAM: 16GB G.SKILL TRIDENT Z @ 3600MHz PSU: Corsair RM650x

That's the funny thing though, i've seen the Western Blue i have reach upwards of about 120MB/s constant when transferring large (GB's) of files from one drive to another, it just seems weird that a newer drive is actually slower (only ever achieving between 70-80MB/s), given the Blue is a good couple of years older haha.

Defrag's automatically every week or so, just checked, 0% fragmentation.

About a month ago i purchased the Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM006 (2TB, 7200RPM) drive to replace my old and aged, and slowly giving up on life 720GB Western Blue. As of late, the Barracuda is incredibly slow now as well, only delivering speeds of around 80MB/s on both Read's and Write's (slower than the Western Blue i have). I've done the logical thing and checked the sata connections to make sure they are sound - they are. I have the MSI Z370m Mortar mobo, which has 4x SATA3 ports. What could be causing this loss in speed, or lack of?

This card runs hot due to the poor thermal design, when in games it runs anywhere between 69-72c, even in an open-air bench with a low-ass ambient temperature. This card sucks balls for temps, always has ever since i got it. I've just rebooted, and the artifacting has disappeared for now (could be agood sign?). I'l chase them about an RMA.